Dave, I've applied this patch, and all appears well. In addition to the case where connectivity is never established if the driver is loaded without an attached cable, it also appears to solve the case where connectivity is lost after the cable is re-plugged, or moved from a docking station port to the laptop's internal port, or visa-versa.)
Thank You, Joshua Anhalt On May 2, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Ertman, DavidX M wrote: > This was committed to Linus's tree: > b20a774495671f037e7160ea2ce8789af6b61533 > e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out > > The same fix will be in the out-of-tree driver that will be pushed to > SourceForge in the next week or so. > > Dave Ertman > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Joshua Anhalt [mailto:anh...@andrew.cmu.edu] >> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 6:37 PM >> To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i217-LM boot wreckage >> >> Regarding this patch, is there an estimate for when it may be released? >> >> On March 26, 2014, at 9:02 PM, Ertman, DavidX M <davidx.ertman@in...> >> wrote: >> >>> Just an update. A patch for this issue was submitted into our internal >> queue on Monday and is in review/testing. >>> >>> Dave Ertman >> >> >> Perhaps we have a different issue, but the symptoms appear to be the >> same. We have a large number of Dell M6800 laptops, with the Intel i217-LM >> NIC. They behave just as Thomas Gleixner described earlier in this thread. >> (If we boot them without the ethernet cable attached, then attach the cable, >> we cannot establish a wired connection.) >> >> We have another trigger than shows the same behavior, if the laptop booted >> with an attached a wired connection via a docking station, then undock the >> laptop, and connect a wired connection directly to the laptop's ethernet >> port, >> (many times but not all), the NIC will enter apparently the same state as if >> you booted without a cable attached. (ethtool shows it is up, but Receive >> counters do not increase, tcpdump shows no traffic, DHCP never finds an >> address, etc.) >> >> Thank You, >> Joshua Anhalt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? Join Perforce May 7 to find out: • 3 signs your SCM is hindering your productivity • Requirements for releasing software faster • Expert tips and advice for migrating your SCM now http://p.sf.net/sfu/perforce _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
